Senior AI Platform Architect & Orchestration Lead

Vanguard; Malvern (Chester County); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard in Malvern, PA, seeks an Applications Engineering Technical Lead II to guide AI-powered experiences with scalable, compliant platforms. You will shape orchestration patterns, governance, and retrieval systems, while mentoring engineers and ensuring secure, observable pipelines.

You will influence design options, align with stakeholders, and drive adoption of new standards across the team. Hybrid work supports collaboration and in-person learning.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with agent orchestration or conversational AI platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud-native service architecture and knowledge management/RAG systems.
• Experience with LLM observability and evaluation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Provides expert-level technical leadership for orchestration platform and governance practices.
• Mentors engineers and drives adoption of new technical standards.
• Reviews architecture docs and defines technical patterns for onboarding and ingestion.
• Ensures security, compliance, and governance requirements are met.
• Supports design reviews, code inspections, and milestone status updates.

Skills

Agent orchestration

LLM observability

Python

TypeScript

Cloud-native

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Arize

Claude

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Vanguard in Malvern, PA, seeks an Applications Engineering Technical Lead II to guide AI-powered experiences with scalable, compliant platforms. You will shape orchestration patterns, governance, and retrieval systems, while mentoring engineers and ensuring secure, observable pipelines.

You will influence design options, align with stakeholders, and drive adoption of new standards across the team. Hybrid work supports collaboration and in-person learning.